That's right that this bloody Channel is not a piece of cake. This one was close (and a lot of people above !) :

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If you're playing the stock game the Channel is very easy, which is totally unhistorical. The better mods make it more like it really was, i.e. DEADLY!:dead:

i actually did it in GW

im amazed that i didn die

Actually it's easy in GW or NYGM: just leave Wilhelmshaven early in the morning of September 1, 1939 at flank speed and make sure you're through the Channel before September 3.:rotfl:

well i did it in 1940

I know, I was just making a funny.

i know

I went through in 1940 as well after being ordered to re-base at Brest.

Regards,

Grell

Hey mookie...coin yer own phrase lol :rotfl: :up: :arrgh!:

:rotfl:Didn't know who to attribute it to, and I thought it had become so famous that it was in the public domain! :up:

:rotfl: :rotfl:
salute :up:

Though I kind of like Sailor Steve's acronym for it...SAFTEC :yep:

I went through there three times without a scratch in a IXB. Sank 100k tons there and only there. Needless to say, I was pretty new to the game. This was in GW 1.0.

Okay.. I'm going to stay the hell out of the Channel !!!
(I somehow miraculously survived a ride through there last night... and there were not many naval ships about nor did any planes come after me. I guess they thought any sub jocky trying to go through there would be a suicidal idiot. You should have seen my crew's faces when I ordered "Full steam ahead into the channel")
It was fun watching the mines pass perilously close to my boat from external view. :D
I hope that Great Britain cleaned up after themselves well and that there still aren't any of those mines still hanging out there in RL.

Yep the odd mine has turned up over the years
Dont forget the Germans mined too
In the channel and close to ports

Something you may come across if you use GWX and are stupid enough to use the channel after 40